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For three years in a row, Steffen Künn and colleagues went to a seven-week-long chess tournament in Cologne to establish a link between levels of air pollution and cognitive performance. The somewhat alarming results were eagerly scooped up by the media, but it took even more data to convince the...

The balance after a year and a half of the COVID-19 crisis in education: the corona delay has partly been made up, but learning growth is still lower, especially in mathematics. Vulnerable students remain the hardest hit.

The increased Englishization of higher education is under discussion in several European countries. What does a balanced language policy look like that does justice to both the increasingly international character of higher education and a country's language-related cultural identity? At an...

Tijdens Ursula von der Leyens meest recente State of the Union kwam een breed scala aan onderwerpen aan bod, van de ‘usual suspects’ zoals defensie en concurrentievermogen tot de opnieuw opgekomen Green Deal, de wooncrisis, arbeidsrechten en de strijd tegen armoede. Haar toespraak werd met gemengde...

As part of my research internship at the Fair & Smart Data (FSD) project, I’ve been balancing thesis work, communication tasks, and gaining a closer look at how academic research functions in practice. In this blog, I will share some reflections from this experience, particularly my take on innovation...

The coming years will see tens of thousands of homes in the Netherlands undergo extensive renovation and modernisation. While the main goal is to improve energy efficiency, researcher Juan Palacios is interested in understanding the impact of home renovations on residents’ health. He will spend the...

Anecdotal evidence imply that what ones sees in a sausage factory cannot be unseen, and such an experience somehow takes away something from the joy that stems out of the carefree consumption of such delicacies. In this blog entry about the international poverty line’s maladies I don’t want to ask...

In Europe, particularly in the Netherlands, RegMed XB is gearing up to take on the United States, Japan and Israel in the field of regenerative medicine. ReGEN Biomedical—affiliated with Maastricht University and a spin-off of RegMed XB—is building a facility to grow human tissue that will one day be...

The team continued Maastricht’s history of success at the competition, finishing third out of 120 teams. Maastricht received outstanding scores in the preliminary rounds and excellent feedback throughout. Unfortunately, they narrowly lost (3-2) in the semi-finals against the eventual winners of the...